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Cinema of India
  • 1. What was the first Indian sound film?
A) Kisan Kanya
B) Indra Sabha
C) Alam Ara
D) Devdas
  • 2. Who made the first Indian sound film in 1931?
A) Ardeshir Irani
B) Nidamarthi Surayya
C) Moti B
D) Swamikannu Vincent
  • 3. Who built the first film studio in South India?
A) Ardeshir Irani
B) Swamikannu Vincent
C) Nidamarthi Surayya
D) Moti B
  • 4. What was the name of the first film studio in South India?
A) Prabhat Studios
B) Bombay Talkies
C) Durga Cinetone
D) Films Division
  • 5. In which city was the first film studio in South India built?
A) Rajahmundry
B) Pune
C) Coimbatore
D) Madras
  • 6. Which early films marked the beginning of song-and-dance in Indian cinema?
A) Wrath and Raithu Bidda
B) Mother India and Pyaasa
C) Indra Sabha and Devi Devyani
D) Devdas and Kisan Kanya
  • 7. What was the first colour film made in India?
A) Alam Ara
B) Nabanna
C) Devdas
D) Kisan Kanya
  • 8. Who introduced the concept of 'tent cinema' in South India?
A) Nidamarthi Surayya
B) Swamikannu Vincent
C) Moti B
D) Ardeshir Irani
  • 9. What was the name of the first 'tent cinema' in Madras?
A) Edison's Grand Cinema Megaphone
B) Bombay Talkies
C) Prabhat Studios
D) Durga Cinetone
  • 10. Which films were banned by the British Raj for broaching the Indian independence movement?
A) Mother India and Pyaasa
B) Kisan Kanya and Indra Sabha
C) Wrath and Raithu Bidda
D) Alam Ara and Devdas
  • 11. When did the Indian Masala film genre arise?
A) In the 1950s
B) After the 1947 partition
C) Following the Second World War
D) During the 1930s
  • 12. Which organisation began to take shape in the 1940s and 1950s with a communist inclination?
A) Bombay Talkies
B) Films Division
C) Durga Cinetone
D) Indian People's Theatre Association
  • 13. Which play prepared the ground for realism in Indian cinema?
A) Pyaasa
B) Mother India
C) Devdas
D) Nabanna
  • 14. What year was the Films Division established by the Indian government?
A) 1948
B) 1947
C) 1931
D) 1935
  • 15. Which film is cited as an example of the established film industry by 1935?
A) Devdas
B) Kisan Kanya
C) Alam Ara
D) Wrath
  • 16. Which term is often mistakenly used to refer to the entirety of Indian cinema?
A) Mollywood
B) Tollywood
C) Bollywood
D) Kollywood
  • 17. In what year did Indian cinema earn ₹11,833 crore at the box-office?
A) 2024
B) 2022
C) 1931
D) 2021
  • 18. Which city houses the world's largest film studio complex?
A) Kolkata
B) Chennai
C) Mumbai
D) Hyderabad
  • 19. What is the name of the largest film studio complex in the world?
A) Ramoji Film City
B) Prasads
C) Annapurna Studios
D) Filmistan
  • 20. In 2022, which film industry held the largest percentage of box office revenue at 33%?
A) Tamil
B) Telugu
C) Kannada
D) Hindi
  • 21. Which industry led Indian cinema in 2022 with 23.3 crore tickets sold?
A) Telugu
B) Hindi
C) Malayalam
D) Tamil
  • 22. Who released the first Indian film, Raja Harishchandra, in 1913?
A) Robert Paul
B) The British government
C) Dadasaheb Phalke
D) Lumière brothers
  • 23. What percentage of the Indian film industry's revenue comes from overseas Indians?
A) 12%
B) 16%
C) 20%
D) 33%
  • 24. In what year did talkies begin in India?
A) 1896
B) 1913
C) 1931
D) 1927
  • 25. As of 2022, what is the total percentage of box office revenue represented by Telugu cinema?
A) 33%
B) 8%
C) 16%
D) 20%
  • 26. How many acres does the Ramoji Film City measure?
A) Over 2,500 acres
B) Under 500 acres
C) Exactly 1,000 acres
D) Over 1,666 acres
  • 27. Which industry had a 16% share of box office revenue in 2022?
A) Malayalam
B) Tamil
C) Marathi
D) Kannada
  • 28. In what year were the first moving pictures shown in Bombay?
A) 1931
B) 1913
C) 1896
D) 1927
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